Yes, I have doubted. I have wandererd off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. It is beyond the logic I seek. It is intuitive - an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem to find my way home. My faith has wavered but has saved me.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.